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RE: [debian-knoppix] Try to emulate CD with HD...



> Hi everyone.
> 
> Does someone knows how to emulate the CD booting process using a HD?.
> 
> What I'm trying to do is to build all the CD on a HD and be 
> able to test
> it before burning it. The idea that comes to my mind right 
> now is that I
> could create the compressed image and then make the floppies with
> syslinux that finally mount the compressed image from the HD, if all
> this works fine (the floppies and the compressed image), in 
> that stage I
> should burn the CD with the compressed image on it and using 
> the images
> of the floppies "syslinux" boot process, changed to mount the 
> compressed
> image from the CD, as the boot process of the CD.
> 
> Did I explain it well?, I feel that my english today is awful.
> 
> Greettings and thanks for all.
> Ernesto

Probably you want to use VMWare (proprietary) or Bochs (free, but can it
boot
from an ISO?) for that.
Both are hardware emulators.

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